I've had a request at work for a "mobile phone detector"
Bit of background, I work at a school and as much and as often as we drum it into the students heads that "They must NOT take a mobile phone into exams." they still do.
And while this rule is there because of the ability to try to cheat in an exam, more often than not it's just innocent stupidity and complacency and sometimes less innocent just doing it because they are better than the rules attitude.
This is a very serious issue for the students, if during an exam they are found to have a mobile phone on them (even if it's turned off) then they are automatically disqualified and can also be disqualified from all other exams from that exam board for that academic year.
And yes we had someone already this Jan have their phone go off in a resit exam, which has basically up their whole year as the student now cannot sit the majority of the exams that person was taking in the summer.
That decision is the ruling of the exam board NOT the school.
Hense the enquiries being made into some form of mobile phone detector, to force the little darlings into complying to the rules.
Now you may think, why both? they've been told enough times, their option to royally themselves up.
Well many of us agree, conquences to your actions and all that, however there's the problem of league tables, these things are a major issue for schools and have a knock on effect that which can be very bad.
Hense muggings here being asked about it, I'm sure such a thing exists however I'm really not sure of a starting point for a search.
So any help and information is welcome.